Posted on 12th July, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, American Malls, Live Music Industry, Live Nation, Music Industry, Quibi and Scott Galloway
My first experience of the United States was not the NYC, LA or Florida usually encountered by those visiting the new world for the first time. I was five years…
Read morePosted on 4th July, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Audience Engagement, Awareness, BBC, BBC One, Binge Watch, Broadcasters, Channel 4, Consumption Habits, Cricket, Declining Subscribers, Demographic Cliff, Digital Landscape, Diluting Assets, Distribution, ECB, EPL, Fandom, FIFA, FIFA Women’s World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Football, Fragmented Market, Free To Air, Gaming, ICC, ICC Cricket World Cup, ITV, Live Sports, Market Saturation, Marketing, Medium, Niche Sports, Pay Tv, Pay-tv Subscriptions, Payalled Services, Peak Attention Economy, Rights Acquisition, Rights Holders, Rugby, Scripted Drama, Secular Decline, Sky, Sky Sports, Soccer, Specialisation, Sports Rights, Streaming Insurgents, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Value Proposition, Video Games, Viewership and World Cup
With both the ICC Cricket World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup approaching their climaxes, the stark difference in audience engagement raises the question, is pay-TV killing off niche sports?…
Read morePosted on 13th June, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Ad Revenue, Ad Supported Streaming, Ad Supported Streaming Audio, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Playlists, Podcasts, Radio, Spotify, Spotify Ad Revenue, Spotify Competing With Radio, Spotify Playlists, Streaming Ad Revenue, Streaming Playlists, Streaming Radio and Your Daily Drive
Spotify has launched a radio-like feature set for premium subscribers in the US called Your Daily Drive.Although it is only positioned as a playlist, the content mix includes podcast news content…
Read morePosted on 13th June, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Addressable Audience, All Or Nothing, Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Capital, Customer Acquisition, D-day For Sporting Rights, Dallas Cowboys, Derby County, Digital Economy, Digital Ecosystem, Documentary, EFL, English Championship, EPL, Facebook, Formula 1, Instagram, Leeds United, Live Sports, Liverpool, Manchester City, MLB, Netflix, Nfl, NHL, Original Content, Peak Attention, Premium Domestic Rights, Rag To Riches, Reach, Riches To Rags, Rights Acquisition, Rights Portfolio, Social Media, Sports Consumption, Sports Docuseries, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Sunderland 'Til I Die, Sunderland AFC, Svod, Tech, Tech Major, TNF, Twitter and Value Proposition
Leeds United are set to become the latest soccer club to feature in an original documentary series, with tech major Amazon securing a deal for a behind-the-scenes look at Argentinian…
Read morePosted on 25th April, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Amazon Streaming Strategy, Google Home, Radio Disruption, Spotify, Us Radio Market and Voice Control
History doesn’t repeat itself. It does, however, rhyme. Amazon have followed up the announcement of its free music streaming service by elaborating on its integration into Alexa and its Echo…
Read morePosted on 17th April, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Ad Supported, Ad Supported Strategy, Ad Supported Streaming, Amazon, Amazon Ad Revenues, Amazon Ad Strategy, Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime Music, Amazon Prime Video, Facebook, Facebook Ad Revenue, Free Streaming, Freemium, Freemium Music, IMDB Freedive, Radio, Spotify, Spotify Ad Supported, Tech Major Ad Revenue, Tech Majors, TV and Video
Amazon is reportedly close to launching an ad supported streaming music offering. Spotify’s stock price took an instant tumble.But the real story here is much bigger than the knee-jerk reactions of…
Read morePosted on 3rd April, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in 23 Capital, Albums, Amazon, Amuse, Apple, CDBaby, China, Emerging Markets, India, Laas, Labels As A Services, Latin America, Music Business, Music Business Trends, Music Industry, Netflix, Playlists, Podcasts, Post-album Economics, Radio, Record Labels, Social Music, Splice, Spotify, Streaming Pricing, Tech Major Bundles and Tech Majors
The IFPI has reported that global recorded music revenues have hit $19.1 billion, which means that MIDiA’s own estimates published in March were within 1.6% of the actual results. This revenue growth story is strong…
Read morePosted on 3rd April, 2019 by Georgia Meyer in Amazon, Conquesting Ads, Echo, Ecommerce, Instagram, Instagram Shop, Jetblack and Walmart
Commerce has moved online. In this rapidly evolving space, the dynamics of which govern the fortunes of so many businesses and brands, Amazon, Walmart and Instagram are playing their hands…
Read morePosted on 28th March, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Arcade, Apple Content Revenue, Apple Music, Apple Services Revenue, Apple Subscriptions, Apple Tv and TV
On Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super…
Read morePosted on 21st February, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Allsvenskan, Altice, Amazon, Amazon Fire Stick, Amazon Prime Video, Android TV, Audience Engagement, Audience Reach, BT Sport, Bundesliga, Carriage Partnerships, Chinese Super League, Disney, Disruptors, Distribution Partnerships, Domestic Rights, Eleven Sports, English Premier League, Eredivisie, Espn, Formula One, Google, Google Chromecast, IMG, La Liga, Liga Endesa Basketball, Ligue 1, Linear Broadcasters, Live Content, Live Sports, Nfl, NOS, Nowo, OTT, Over-the-top, Pay Tv, Portfolio Diversification, Premium Rights, Rights Acquisition, Rights Holders, ROI, Samsung, Serie A, Sky, SPFL, Sport TV, Sporting Rights, Sports Fans, Sports-centric, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Traditional Pay-TV, UEFA Champions League, Ufc, Value Propostion, Video Services and Vodafone
Eleven Sports announced last week it had successfully agreed long-term distribution agreements with all four TV operators in Portugal – Altice, NOS, Nowo and Vodafone. Achieving this agreement puts Eleven…
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